http://youtu.be/VuIpdFOKlYUEric Draitser of StopImperialism.org appears on RT to provide his analysis of the growing tensions between Russia and the US over Ukraine and a number of other issues. Draitser explains that US policy in Ukraine is at the heart of the current crisis there, and that NATO expansion has long since been a key factor in cooling relations between the two. He also points out the conflicting policy from the US, both acknowledging the need for cooperation with Russia and simultaneously making inflammatory comments and threats.

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Have Senator Feinstein send you the same policy statement she sent me when I inquired why we are there. I am currently neutral on Putin because I have been to Russia and I do not see the evil that is being spewed. I have no doubt he played hardball with the gangsters that filled the power vacuum when the Soviet Union collapsed. I have only asked why we are involved. I smell oil. Texas is now fracking record oil production. And this whole process started when Bush abrogated the missal treaty.

Eric is wrong on one point. To blame the Obama administration for the Zionist Neo-Cons that are in absolute control of America, is to ‘shoot the messenger’. Obama was put in power by these people to deflect the real hatred of Americans, all over this world, after Bush Inc destruction of Afghanistan and Iraq. For a while, the world gave them latitude, as per a black-man in ‘power’, but his actions clearly show that Zion America is hell bent on destroying this entire planet, enslaving all and reducing human beings to serve the self-proclaimed-self chosen! Their radical right wing neo-nazi thugs that overthrew the democratically elected Ukraine President, shows just how evil these people, who preach to the west everyday, really are. Meanwhile they continue to thief all of Palestine,for the controlled white man has long given up on justice.

I agree with your analysis and objective of stoping imperialism; essentially Ukraine crisis is a proxy war and I think Obama is facing his Cuban Missile crisis moment; I see a parallel between the two. As Mary Dejevsky of the Guardian has observed, in the past six months, in particular since the overthrow of the elected president, war of words and western propaganda has saturated to such heights of hysteria and she cautions with a health warning about western propaganda machine about arms and troops build up and showing old footage from historical archives recycled in current context as new evidence from satellite showing arms build up, I think current cold war confrontation began in 2008 in Georgian crisis and agree with your geopolitical analysis and also with Professor Stephen Cohen , both yours and his analysis are the correct perspective for me. NATO needs a reason detre and this will provide it existential basis, UK and other powers also would like to gain dominance in Russia and Obama needs a legacy and pro Washington opposition groups in former soviet republics bordering Russia want Russia not to resume empire, want western action to stop Russia as deterrence from ambition of empire building into their territories so are providing the context and justification for western action;

As Eric stresses here: “NATO expansion has been at the heart of this from the beginning.” In Bulgaria, this has been heavily underscored by its its Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen’s visit to Sofia on 11 April, vowing to boost NATO presence in the Black Sea: http://www.novinite.com/articles/159748/ Rasmussen also advised the Bulgarian government it should purchase new fighter jets “compatible with the aircraft and defense systems of the other allies” instead of the MIG-15s it presently maintains.
Bear in mind that Bulgaria is the poorhouse of the EU and NATO, much of its working force, nearly all of its pensioners and large Roma minority (85% now unemployed) living at poverty levels and worse.
Meanwhile, “It is US military vessels and not Russia’s airplanes that pose a problem in the Black Sea,” Russia’s ambassador to Bulgaria Yury Isakov said on Friday 11 April. He described the increasing U.S. naval presence in Black Sea waters as a violation of international law: http://www.novinite.com/articles/159754/ He was referring in part to the entry of the US destroyer Donald Cook in the Black Sea in “support for Ukrainians”: http://www.novinite.com/articles/159668/

Great job as always, Eric! How you manage to keep a straight face when listening to John FrankenKerry’s remarks is beyond me; it must be a feat of strength! Especially when he discusses paid agents and provocateurs — as though the death squads and the tyre burners weren’t collecting more than bread and salt from Victoria Nuland and Mad Dog McCain for their handiwork!

And what does the SOS mean when he uses the word “unacceptable”? Does he mean that Russian provocateurs in Eastern Ukraine will be answered by the axing of all Russian scientific staff conducting research within the United States? He must! For, that is what just happened. All Russian scientists on visas have been prohibited from carrying on with their work.

This is another piece of genius from the infants at the DOS. Take Brookhaven national laboratory on eastern Long Island: most of the researchers are Russian nationals on visas. They have so many Russians, the lab conducts a weekly tour in Russian!

America’s premier science programs have just been killed thanks to the stubborn Nazi-lovers in Washington! Can life mock fiction any worse?